{"id":296566,"date":"2017-02-26T00:17:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tyranny-of-the-minority\/"},"modified":"2017-02-26T00:17:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T23:17:06","slug":"tyranny-of-the-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tyranny-of-the-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny of the minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-4258522\/A-poisonous-conviction-taking-root-Left.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 25, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>Back in the 18th century, political reformer Henry Fox was advocating giving the vote to more people. But only, he insisted, to what he called \u2018the better sort\u2019. Not \u2018the mob or the mere dregs of the people\u2019. Heaven forbid!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Now, in the 21st century, such derogatory sentiments about \u2018the people\u2019 are dangerously back in fashion \u2014 ever since they dared vote for Brexit in Britain, and for Donald Trump in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Questions are being asked in high places about whether ordinary voters are fit to make decisions on major issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As a result, democracy \u2014 the cornerstone of our way of life \u2014 is being undermined, its very survival put at risk. Its modern enemies are mustering from all corners \u2014 but most worryingly from the Left, the very area where its stoutest defenders should be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As a long-standing person of the Left, I fear that democratic freedoms are now in danger of being abandoned as elitists in our midst attempt to restrict them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Every serious politician and thinker declares his or her belief in democracy. Yet, in practice, they seek to separate power from the people. The mantra has become \u2018I\u2019m a democrat, of course, but \u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-4258522\/A-poisonous-conviction-taking-root-Left.html\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Saturday, February 25, 2017  at  6:48 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/tyranny-of-the-minority.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"http:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/tyranny-of-the-minority.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailFebruary 25, 2017 Back in the 18th century, political reformer Henry Fox was advocating giving the vote to more people. But only, he insisted, to what he called \u2018the better sort\u2019. Not \u2018the mob or the mere dregs of the people\u2019. Heaven forbid! Now, in the 21st century, such derogatory sentiments about \u2018the people\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}